Deradicalisation programmes for Islamic State fighters who have returned from Syria and Iraq are largely unsuccessful. Some are continuing to make propaganda videos for the terrorist group while back in Germany, and most rejoin the country’s flourishing Salafist community.

A 32-year-old former drug dealer radicalised in prison has been arrested for plotting to attack a French Socialist MP as a means to “serve Islam.” The self-proclaimed Islamic radical was released from prison in February this year. It is understood that he